New study reports companion robots with artificial intelligence may one day help alleviate loneliness epidemic. Surgeon General says loneliness may be as pernicious as cigarettes.

  • HellaPterodactylSkills@tooters.org
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    1 year ago

    @cyu I don’t think it will work because people won’t fully embrace a relationship where the companion has intelligence but no choice. I think the overcoming of the possibility of rejection and the earning of continued companionship between people is part of what makes relationships full filling. There will always be that sense that it’s hollow or lesser because you are programmed to be my companion.